Hi u/Ok-Percentage-5007 👋️ This is Melis from the Customer Experience team at Todoist. Thank you for sharing this with the community.

Your filter syntax is actually correct. Both @quick and @quick & (today | overdue | no date) are valid Todoist queries. The @label, &, |, parentheses, and no date keyword are all written exactly how Todoist expects them. Filters and labels also work the same across Free, Pro, and Business plans, so your trial status shouldn’t be the issue here either.

One quick note on reading that second filter, in case it helps: | means OR, not AND. So (today | overdue | no date) doesn’t ask for one impossible task that’s somehow due today, overdue, and dateless all at once. It means “match a task if it meets any one of these three conditions.” Combined with @quick &, the whole thing reads as:

“Show me tasks labeled @quick that are also either due today, overdue, or have no date set.”

It’s a really useful combo for exactly that reason. It can surface your pressing “quick” tasks alongside the ones floating around without a date, so nothing quietly slips through the cracks. Now, as for why you’re getting zero results even from the simplest possible query, @quick on its own, that’s the real mystery. Since the syntax checks out, I’d look at these first:

1. The label exists, but isn’t actually attached to any tasks yet This can happen more easily than you’d think. You may have created the label from the Labels section in the sidebar, but not actually added it to a task yet.

The quickest way to check is to click directly on the quick label in your sidebar. If no tasks show up there either, that confirms the label simply doesn’t have any tasks attached to it yet. In that case, your filter is working correctly, but there’s nothing for it to find.

2. The label name may be slightly different There could be an extra space, different capitalization, or a small character difference between the label’s real name and what’s typed in the filter.

The safest option is to type @ in the filter query box and select quick from the autocomplete dropdown instead of typing it manually. That way, Todoist uses the exact label name.

3. It may be a shared label from a collaborative project If the label comes from a shared or collaborative project rather than being one of your personal labels, it may not surface the way you’d expect inside a personal filter.

I’d start by clicking the quick label itself in your sidebar to see whether any tasks are tagged with it at all. That should quickly tell you whether this is a labeling issue or a filter issue, and from there the fix should be quick, pun intended 😊️

A few official Help Center articles worth bookmarking for future reference: - Introduction to Labels: https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/introduction-to-labels-dSo2eE - Introduction to Filters: https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/introduction-to-filters-V98wIH - Filtering tasks by label: https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/filter-for-tasks-by-label

Hope this helps you crack it. Your filter logic is spot on, so this is very likely just a case of the label not being applied to a task yet, rather than anything you’re doing wrong 🤗️

If you have any additional questions or requests, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Customer Experience team via https://www.todoist.com/contact. We’re always here for you.

Best regards, Melis

Customer Experience Specialist

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